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0.7%: The race for new aid legislation is on in the UK and elsewhere in Europe |
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Eurodad members campaigning for more and better aid have been putting pressure on their governments to pass legislation on aid commitments. Activists in several countries are concentrating on ensuring that aid promises are kept, and preventing further slashes in bi-lateral aid given by their countries. Other Eurodad member organisations, notably those in Ireland and the UK, have been pushing their respective governments to increase aid levels to 0.7% of GNI (Gross National Income). Amy Pollard from UK based NGO and Eurodad member Cafod , comments on the UK’s draft legislation to commit to this increase. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 01 February 2010 )
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European aid in danger of missing 2010 targets |
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An update from the CONCORD AidWatch network, “EU aid in jeopardy?” released as a prelude to this year’s AidWatch report and in advance of the publication of the annual OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) aid figures, finds that the European aid landscape has been severely altered by the financial crisis. Before the worst effects of the crisis became apparent, last year’s AidWatch report showed that EU aid was far from reaching the set collective interim target of 0.56% of Gross National Income (GNI) by 2010. Furthermore, aid inflation - meaning including expenditures such as debt relief, student and refugee costs in official aid figures - was common practice across European member states. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 29 January 2010 )
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Development effectiveness and international aid actors |
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Briefing by the North-South Institute Over the last decade, official aid policy debates have increasingly centred on improving aid effectiveness. The origins for this focus can be traced to the 1995 OECD-Development Assistance Committee statement, “Shaping the 21st Century”. Momentum grew in the 2000s, with a series of High Level Forums on Aid Effectiveness, including the 2005 meeting that resulted in the Paris Declaration. Along with the Millennium Development Goals, the Paris Declaration and its 2008 companion (the Accra Agenda for Action) now represent the key international frameworks for donor and developing country efforts on aid effectiveness. Read the full brief here: http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/pdf/Issues%20Brief%20Sept.pdf |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 January 2010 )
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Greater aid transparency: crucial for aid effectiveness |
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This paper sets out and explores the link between donor aid and recipient country budgets, and the role that greater transparency about aid can play in improving budget transparency, the quality of budgetary decisions, and accountability systems. The paper goes on to explore how current initiatives to improve aid transparency can best support better budgets and accountability in aid dependent countries. These efforts provide an important opportunity to enhance the effec- tiveness of both the recipient governments’ own spending and the aid they receive from donors. Research related to this paper has been funded by the International Budget Partnership and Publish What You Fund, with the aim of informing and influencing the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) – an ongoing process to build an international standard for aid information as a follow on from the resolutions in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 January 2010 )
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Procurement and Development Effectiveness - A Literature Review |
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Eurodad has identified public procurement policies and practices by developing country governments and aid agencies as a key area in which more progress is needed in order to improve the effectiveness of official development assistance. Public procurement accounts for up to 40 percent of GDP in some developing countries. Besides being an important share of these countries’ economies, procurement policies are an important instrument to achieve socioeconomic goals such as economic development, poverty eradication and social equity. Procurement policies are also an important policy tool in the hands of governments to boost the national socio-economic fabric as part of their development strategies to gradually reduce aid dependence. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 January 2010 )
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